I've not used the daemon gem, so I'm not really sure why it's not
working... perhaps it's worth contacting Ed Hickey (since you're using
his branch) via email/blog/github, to get his opinions on it? The
thinking_sphinx:index:delta task is something he's written.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
--
Pat
On 24/12/2008, at 3:03 AM, Canvas wrote:
>
> Hi there guys,
>
> I am using gem daemon, instead of cron job, to periodically rebuild
> sphinx delta index. The reason is that my data update very frequently
> and I want to udpate the delta index every 10 seconds or so, whereas
> cron job can not be scheduled in seconds.
>
> I tried to run rake command in the daemon to rebuild index for sphinx.
> But the rake command is never successfully executed. The source code
> is as following. I just don't know what is going on.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>
> ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "development"
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../config/environment"
>
> $running = true
> Signal.trap("TERM") do
> $running = false
> end
>
> while($running) do
> time_start = Time.now
> system "/usr/local/bin/rake thinking_sphinx:index:delta"
> time_finish = Time.now
> time_span = time_finish - time_start
> ActiveRecord::Base.logger.info "/usr/local/bin/rake
> thinking_sphinx:index:delta --- #{time_span} seconds. \n"
>
> sleep 10
> end
>
> Ryan mentioned in <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/127-rake-in-
> background">http://railscasts.com/episodes/127-rake-in-background</a>
> that rake task is quite resource-consuming for frequent using. So I am
> wondering whether I am even in the right track or not.
>
> I tried command
> " system 'rake thinking_sphinx:index' " in IRB and controller action,
> it worked in both cases. It seems that it dose not work only in the
> daemon. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you very much. Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
> cheers
> --
> Canvas
> >
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